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1 hr ago | Gouverneur Times

Screenwriter Avary taken off jail furlough

Avary was sentenced in September to a year in jail and five years probation for causing a drunken driving car crash that killed a passenger and injured Avary's wife.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Pulp Fiction, Drama Movies

6 hrs ago | 680News

Britain's former top UN official says US undermined attempts to win support for Iraq war

The United States was "hell bent" on a 2003 military invasion of Iraq and actively undermined efforts by Britain to win international authorization for the war, a former British diplomat told an inquiry Friday.

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Related Topix: George Bush, W.

Fri Nov 27, 2009

WSVN-TV Miami Beach

Secret Service: officers didn't verify crashers

The Virginia couple who crashed a presidential dinner met President Barack Obama in the receiving line, the White House said Friday, as a "deeply concerned and embarrassed" Secret Service acknowledged its officers failed to check whether the couple was on the guest list.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, World News, India, Asia, Manmohan Singh

Free Press

Report: Tim Montgomery says he took steroids to run faster than American rival Maurice Greene

Tim Montgomery started taking performance-enhancing drugs because he wanted to beat American sprint rival Maurice Greene and become the fastest man in the world, the former 100-metre world-record holder said in an interview with a British newspaper.

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Related Topix: Montgomery Metro, Montgomery, AL, Federal Prisons, Spain, World News,

Gouverneur Times

Suspect in Nazi trial proud of his SS service

Heinrich Boere, 88, made his first comments to the Aachen state court since his trial opened at the end of October.

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Related Topix: World News, Belgium, Netherlands, Europe, Germany

WPVI-TV Philadelphia

Police seek escaped Phila. prisoner

November 27, 2009 -- Police are looking for an escaped prisoner, who was behind bars for murder.

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Related Topix: Philadelphia, PA

Edmonton Sun

Government introduces legislation making prison transfers harder

The Harper government introduced legislation Thursday to make it tougher for Canadians imprisoned abroad to serve their sentences in Canada.

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Thu Nov 26, 2009

Buffalo News

Cuba military exercise guards against US invasion

Cuba's armed forces launched three days of intense military exercises across the island Thursday, a mobilization that state-controlled media says is designed to guard against an American invasion.

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Related Topix: Raul Castro

Salisbury Journal

Hacker loses extradition battle

Computer hacker Gary McKinnon could be sent to the US within weeks after the Home Secretary refused to block his extradition.

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Related Topix: Computers, Science / Technology, Computer Security, UFO and Alien

MyFoxAtlanta

Patrols and Turkey for Soldiers ina

Thanksgiving Day for soldiers in this valley ringed by towering snowy peaks began with a 6-mile slog to aid village schools without desks and windows, and promises to end with five, once scrawny local turkeys soldiers have been fattening up for the past month.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, New Haven, CT, New Haven Metro, World News, Afghanistan,

The Wichita Eagle

Ex-UK envoy: US focused on Iraq hours after 9/11

Anti-war protesters from the 'Stop the War' group, wearing masks depicting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, right, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, center and former US president George W. Bush, left, pose for the photographers, outside the conference center where the Iraq war inquiry is taking place, in central London, Tuesday Nov.

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Related Topix: George Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Crawford, TX

Eastlothian Today

MSPs to vote on short sentences Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill has ...

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WLTP-AM Vienna

"Cancer of fraud" permeates U.S. healthcare system

It's a crime so profitable that even dead people are in on the act. A Senate committee revealed last year that public health insurer Medicare had paid as much as $92 million from 2000 to 2007 for medical services or equipment ordered or prescribed by doctors who were dead at the time.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, US Federal Bureau of Investigation

Wed Nov 25, 2009

KVUE

US couple charged with forcing woman into sex work

A young woman from Mexico was smuggled over the border and forced to work as a prostitute for years in New York City, and the remains of an infant were found in concrete at the home where she was held prisoner, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: New York

Athens Banner-Herald

Israel offers 10-month West Bank settlement freeze

Israel's prime minister on Wednesday proposed a 10-month freeze on new West Bank settlement construction in what he said was an attempt to jump-start Mideast peace talks.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Travel, Israel Travel,

Coos County Democrat

Doctor's help sought in failed Ohio execution try

Dr. Carmelita Bautista said in a deposition filed in U.S. District Court that she had never before been involved in an execution.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Ted Strickland, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, State Prisons, Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Death Penalty, Illinois

Newindpress

Pakistan charges 7 suspects in Mumbai attacks

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani prosecutors charged seven men on Wednesday with planning and helping execute last year's Mumbai terror attacks.

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Related Topix: World News, Pakistan, Asia, India,

WHDH

Uncle follows nephew to NYC court for terror trial

Khalid Sheik Mohammed has acknowledged doing what his nephew Ramzi Yousef couldn't: toppling the World Trade Center towers.

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Related Topix: Guantanamo Bay, Death Penalty, Terrorism, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

Tue Nov 24, 2009

WATE-TV Knoxville

Khmer Rouge prison chief could get 40 years

Prosecutors in the genocide trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief demanded a 40-year jail sentence Wednesday for a man who they described as snuffing out innocent lives and spreading terror across Cambodia.

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KTLA-TV Los Angeles

US offers reward of up to $5 million for Palestinian bomb-maker accused of 1980s explosions

The U.S. State Department announced Tuesday that it is now offering a reward of up to $5 million for a Palestinian bomb-maker suspected of once targeting commercial airliners and of aiding the Iraq insurgency.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News, Middle East, Terrorism,

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